Lindsay Shepherd
Campus Free Speech Fellow @JCCFCanada, Columnist @TPostMillennial. Views expressed are my own.
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Lindsay Shepherd joins controversial Calgary group to promote free speech on campuses | The Star
The legal advocacy organization brought in Lindsay Shepherd to promote free speech on campuses across Canada, but an LGBTQ advocate says the move is more about promoting their right-wing ideology.
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Suit drive to provide suits for women studying law at UBC
Donations for a suit drive are now open, as a Vancouver lawyer hopes to offer free suits to women studying law at the University of British Columbia.
Did I Harass a Trans Person?
In spring/summer 2018, I was accused of harassing, doxxing, and discriminating against a trans grad student. My very presence at my university was "harassmen...
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NEW VIDEO.
Last summer I was accused of harassing, doxxing & discriminating against a trans grad student.
My very presence at my university was "harassment" to him. Comments made by my Twitter followers, not made by myself, were used to incriminate me.
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SHEPHERD: In defense of Karen Wang
I, for one, feel sympathetic that Wang had to depart on these terms.
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I have started doing some writing for @TrueNorthCentre. Here's an article I wrote during my Twitter suspension (couldn't tweet it out while it was super timely).
What @karenxbwang did is not "racist." Saying someone is "of Indian descent" is not hateful.
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SHEPHERD: Academics who say there’s no free speech crisis are taking no risks
Every once in a while I will stumble upon an article written by a university professor that unoriginally recites the
Thoughtcrime and Punishment: A Year Of Shunning and Law Suits at a Canadian University
In late 2017, I found myself at the centre of a controversy at Wilfrid Laurier University, where I was an M.A. student and teaching assistant (TA) in the Communication Studies department. In the class for which I was serving as TA, I played part of...
Jonathan Yaniv is a Predator
Jonathan Yaniv is a creepy man with paedophilic tendencies.
STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH CULTURE
A critical analysis of student mental health culture. Students are trying to "change campus culture" to make university "less competitive", and relatively no...
SHEPHERD: Mandarin- the new job requirement in the Greater Vancouver Area?
Most Canadian job seekers would understand a “bilingual” position to be demanding language skills in both English and French. But
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My latest article.
Many jobs in the Vancouver area require applicants to speak Mandarin or Cantonese. I contacted some of the organizations demanding Mandarin-speaking staff, asking them why those language skills were required, but none responded to me.
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Exposing Grad School (My M.A. experience)
Points covered in this video: - My motivations for applying to graduate school - The prevalence of identity-based research interests - A peek into the "Postm...
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NEW VIDEO:
youtu.be/abeKN_McWHI
Points covered:
- My motivations for applying to grad school
- Prevalence of identity-based research interests
- "Postmodern neo-Marxist" course content
- Lack of standards
- Infantilization of grad students
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Douglas Todd: Radical environmentalists have strong views on immigration
The conservationists’ view is that high immigration complicates the fight against climate change and resource depletion.
Why I Reject Indigenous Land Acknowledgments
Do land acknowledgments mostly only benefit the person who is publicly reciting them? Are Canadian-born white people actually uninvited visitors/guests on Tu...
Click here to support Help us pay WLU's ridiculous fee organized by Lindsay Shepherd
The Laurier Society for Open Inquiry, which was founded in January 2018 by Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) graduate student Lindsay Shepherd, has over 180 members and has held numerous successful events in the Waterloo region in Ontario. LSOI hosts...
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Wow, only $8,055 in security fees to host a talk at Wilfrid Laurier University about women's rights by @MeghanEMurphy. What a good deal 😐
We're going to try to crowdfund this! Thank you SO much to anyone who can help out at all!!! Please read: gofundme.com/help-us-pay-wl… pic.twitter.com/G5VeXJpI2M
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Meghan Murphy: Does Trans Activism Negatively Impact Women's Rights?
The Laurier Society for Open Inquiry will be hosting Meghan Murphy, Founder and Editor of Feminist Current, Canada's leading feminist website.
Meghan will be addressing the question: "Does Trans Activism Negatively Impact Women's Rights?"
The...
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The Laurier Society for Open Inquiry is pleased to announce our next speaker: @MeghanEMurphy! Wed. October 24 at Wilfrid Laurier University. Open to the public. Reserve your ticket on Eventbrite: eventbrite.com/e/meghan-murph… pic.twitter.com/FsnYcb4Ydt
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Queen’s University students protest against professor, Lindsay Shepherd
Protesters argued that Queen's Law shouldn’t be allowing Shepherd to speak at sessions because they believe her views are against a marginalized community.
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Hopefully the protestors took note that next time they should try to find an actual relevant cause to channel their energy and efforts towards
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In no universe is it appropriate for a child murderer to serve her sentence in a healing lodge: Opinion | CBC News
We need to trust that our corrections system will properly punish the perpetrators of the most grotesque acts. The recent decision to transfer child killer Terri-Lynne McClintic from prison to an Indigenous healing lodge undermines that trust and...
Jordan Peterson protesters break window at Grant Hall, barricade exits | The Journal
On Mar. 5, a protest erupted outside of Grant Hall at 4:00 p.m. in opposition to a lecture delivered by controversial University of Toronto Professor Jordan Peterson and Queen’s Professor Bruce Pardy.
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This formerly jailed violent protester also wrote these tweets, including what is basically a threat at the end (link goes to this article queensjournal.ca/story/2018-03-…, about how protestors smashed a window and accosted Dr Jordan Peterson when he spoke at Queens earlier this year) pic.twitter.com/LtX35TefQk
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LSPIRG Opt-out
Official Student site of Wilfrid Laurier University, located in Waterloo and Brantford, Ontario, specializing in business, music, science, arts, social work and education.
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WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADS: Opt out of your $5.44 per term @LSPIRG fee by TOMORROW. They are an anti-free speech organization, want to shut down speakers they disagree with & no one knows where their $ really goes. Opt-out link: web.wlu.ca/lspirgoptout/l… #Laurier2022
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